page_title: Masseteric nerve
hierarchical_section_title: Masseteric nerve
caption_attribution_description: Mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve. (Testut.)
context_page_description: The masseteric nerve passes laterally, above the pterygoideus externus, in front of the temporomandibular articulation, and behind the tendon of the temporalis; it crosses the mandibular notch with the masseteric artery, to the deep surface of the masseter, in which it ramifies nearly as far as its anterior border.
  It is a branch of the mandibular nerve.
  It gives a filament to the temporomandibular joint.
context_section_description: The masseteric nerve passes laterally, above the pterygoideus externus, in front of the temporomandibular articulation, and behind the tendon of the temporalis; it crosses the mandibular notch with the masseteric artery, to the deep surface of the masseter, in which it ramifies nearly as far as its anterior border.
  It is a branch of the mandibular nerve (V3).
  It gives a filament to the temporomandibular joint.
caption: Mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve. (Masseteric visible near center.)
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